Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.